Negesti Kaudo probes her most formative experiences in her demanding essay collection "Ripe". This is an intentional collection exploring Kaudo’s discovery of herself, and her... Read More

Edited by Alex Hernandez, Sarah Rafael García, and Matthew David Goodwin, the anthology "Speculative Fiction for Dreamers" is an exciting and mind-expanding collection of short... Read More

Jerald Walker’s essay collection concerns family, academia, and the uncomfortable realities of racism. The provocative essay “How to Make a Slave” reminisces about a Black... Read More

Naturalist Jill Sisson Quinn’s essay collection "Sign Here If You Exist" concerns connection and change in relation to both the self and the world at large. As an... Read More

“Dangerous the epiphany that you are old enough to have a history”: like a bullet through a pane of glass, so begins Julie Marie Wade’s hellacious essay collection, "Just... Read More

Wilfred Santiago’s graphic novel "Thunderbolt" adapts the story of the controversial nineteenth-century American abolitionist John Brown, who took up arms against proslavery... Read More

Nicole Walker’s dilemma is eye-opening: She cares about the environment, but she is hard-pressed to figure out how to reconcile that concern with modern-day living. With a... Read More

"Quite Mad", Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s mental illness memoir, is nothing short of mesmerizing—an ode to her years of struggling with anxiety, OCD, and PTSD, all of which she... Read More

In Chris Arthur’s masterful, elegant essay collection "Hummingbirds between the Pages", expansive and granular meditations on time, language, nature, mortality, and Northern... Read More

Enlisting in the military is a complicated choice for anyone, but it was especially complex for Anthony Moll, a pink-haired bisexual man who signed on during the “Don’t Ask,... Read More

Ooooh, baby, the gloves are off. In "Radioapocrypha", BK Fischer has done imagined Jesus Christ as a buff chemistry teacher in Maryland in 1989. Does she not fear bolts of... Read More

In the graphic novel "Angelitos", Ilan Stavans and Santiago Cohen team up for a fictional tale about a controversial real-life figure, Padre Chinchachoma of Mexico, and a... Read More